The Only Witness

Two-month-old Ivy is missing. And now half the town thinks desperate 17-year-old Brittany Morgan killed her baby. Matthew Finn, a homicide detective transplanted from Chicago, is a fish out of water in this small gossipy town. All eyes are on him to solve the case, but he cannot find a single witness. Dr. Grace McKenna is on the verge of losing the precious gorillas she has been teaching. Then, she begins to suspect that one gorilla, Neema, may have seen something on the day that Ivy disappeared. But Neema's signs are cryptic, and her stories are undependable. Will revealing her suspicions endanger Dr. McKenna's gorillas or help Detective Finn's quest for the truth?The Only Witness is the suspenseful first book in the Neema the Gorilla Mysteries. If you like intriguing characters, intelligent animal sidekicks, and sharp twists and turns, then you'll love Pamela Beason's captivating page-turner.